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Have you ever thought about assisting IT operations teams to use automation to help detect events and anomalies to identify and resolve issues faster?
Are you ready to start working with complex IT environments and support large companies in helping to ensure the availability of their applications and system resources?
As a System Automation #SA Migration Deployment zSolutions Delivery Consultant, you will experience how we apply technical expertise to ensure world-class delivery using consultative skills such as problem-solving / hypothesis-based methodologies, communication, and service orientation skills. As a member of IBM Technology Expert Labs, Global Delivery Center #GDC you will be client focused, courageous, pragmatic, and technical to optimize and trailblaze new solutions that address real business challenges.
To help achieve this win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the-life' in this role may include, but not be limited to…
• Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that help them improve their systems management, IT operations, and operational security and resiliency by implementing IBM System Automation on their mainframe environment.
• Performing automation migration services with IBM Systems Automation and demonstrating problem solving skills in replacing other mainframe automation products.
• Providing estimates for migrations from automation products to the IBM solution, investigating and analyzing information to draw conclusions regarding migration paths and activities and leading IBM internal, customer and subcontractors teams.
• Under minimal supervision, leading in planning, installing, configuring, verifying, and migrating IBM Z solutions that uses automation to help detect events and anomalies to identify and resolve issues faster within client’s environments.
• Ensuring accurate documentation of and delivery to the project scope and timeline alongside adherence to the products’ implementation methodologies.
• Solving Client Challenges Effectively: Understanding clients' main challenges and developing solutions that helps them reach true business value by working thru the phases of design, development integration, implementation, migration, and product support with a sense of urgency.
• Conducting and participating in technical solution workshops.
• Demonstrating a natural bias towards self-motivation, curiosity, and initiative in addition to navigating data and people to find answers and present solutions
Mainframe Infra-Automation Sysprog 8 to 10 years
Job Description:
• Installation, Configuration, troubleshooting, support and maintenance of IBM System Automation and Net-View
• Manage enhanced Automation solution for IWS-SA integration, SDF customization and Parameters
• Manage the started task (STC) management and cater customized automation requirement with coding
• Building and Manipulating New Policies as per customer needs
• Customization of Service Periods, Events, Triggers and Pacing Gates
• Troubleshoot issues and perform root cause analysis to prevent reoccurrence
• Provide 24x7 on-call support
Required Skillsets -
• 8+ years of strong experience managing IBM System Automation (IBM SA) and Net-view including monitoring, policy setup, and maintenance
• 6+ years of REXX coding and Net-View PIPE programming
• Strong proficiency in CLIST programming
• Solid understanding of IPL shutdown/startup sequencing
• Strong Knowledge on enhanced Automation solution for IWS-SA integration
• Good Knowledge on Integrated SMU with Omegamon and SA/Net-view SDF
• Expertise with customization - Defining Service Periods, Events, Triggers and Pacing Gates
• Basic knowledge of GDPS/PPRC – MTMM
• Has the ability to work independently and to collaborate and communicate with other mainframe engineers
• Have a structured and organized approach and able to document decisions, solutions and procedures
• Act as subject matter experts in the mainframe automation area
• A high level of personal initiative is a must to help us improve and optimize the solutions